2023
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1138813
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Emotional abuse and depressive symptoms among the adolescents: the mediation effect of social anxiety and the moderation effect of physical activity

Abstract: BackgroundChildhood maltreatment has been identified as a risk factor for depressive symptoms. Social anxiety is closely associated with depression. Physical activity has been regarded as an underlying protective factor. Little is known about the complex relations among these factors in Chinese middle school students. This study aimed to explore whether social anxiety mediated the association between childhood maltreatment and depressive symptoms and investigate whether physical activity moderated the indirect… Show more

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“…Compared with boys, in addition to the most obvious effect of punishment on depression, neurological, and cardiopulmonary arousal symptoms, relationship stress, adaptation, and learning stress events also had the most obvious effect on girls’ anger, sympathetic arousal, muscle tension, and upper respiratory. It is worth noting that since girls have higher empathy ability than boys and their overall relationships are better than boys ( 38 , 40 ), the stress generated to maintain good relationships is more likely to be an important source of stress symptoms. Therefore, the mechanism of influence of stress events on stress symptoms is different between boys and girls in secondary school.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Compared with boys, in addition to the most obvious effect of punishment on depression, neurological, and cardiopulmonary arousal symptoms, relationship stress, adaptation, and learning stress events also had the most obvious effect on girls’ anger, sympathetic arousal, muscle tension, and upper respiratory. It is worth noting that since girls have higher empathy ability than boys and their overall relationships are better than boys ( 38 , 40 ), the stress generated to maintain good relationships is more likely to be an important source of stress symptoms. Therefore, the mechanism of influence of stress events on stress symptoms is different between boys and girls in secondary school.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%